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30 November 1999

Location: Compaq's Greenbelt facility (directions available)

Topics:

Architecting 24x365 NonStop eBusiness Systems: Things to Consider Beyond the Box

This non platform specific session will discuss some of key elements to be considered when architecting a 24x365 eBusiness system. A truly architected system will consider the Business drivers and Functional requirements which are key to selecting the correct technology and implementation approaches. IT organizations stand a much greater chance of aligning their systems with the real business requirements when these components are taken into consideration. During this session we will explore some of the methods that can be used to ensure that when a company goes "on-line" they stay "on-line" all the time and also make the CEO happy that the system is obtaining the intended business objective. After all, who cares if your system is always working if it's not doing anything useful.

Speaker Bios

Steve Atkins is a Senior Solutions Architect with Compaq and is part of the Knowledge Management and Messaging professional services practice. He has experience in large Enterprise Computing environments with an extensive background planning, designing and managing large complex messaging environments. Steve has 20 years experience in the industry with roots in the PDP-11/RSX and early VAX/VMS days as one of the U.S. Navy's first instructors on Digital products. Steve is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and represents the Compaq's southeast region on Compaq's world-wide solution architecture council, which is a community of computer professionals who seek to share knowledge and techniques on how to architect NonStop eBusiness systems. Steve can be contacted via e-mail at Steve.Atkins@compaq.com.

George Stobie is a Senior Consultant with Compaq and is part of the eApplications Professional Services Practice. He has extensive experience in planning, designing and implementing complex public messaging and information services. He has been at the forefront of the development of Information Utility (a.k.a ASP) services with major telecommunications companies. He was Compaq's technical architect for the Digital/MCI/Microsoft Alliance for Enterprise Computing. Currently, George provides consulting to customers on the creative application of IT to their eBusiness requirements. George can be contacted via e-mail at George.Stobie@compaq.com.

Compaq Insight Manager 101: What Is It and Why Should I Care?

Compaq Insight Manager is a comprehensive management tool to monitor and control the operation of Compaq servers and clients and DIGITAL X86 and Alpha-based servers. Compaq Insight Manager continues the Compaq tradition of delivering industry-leading scalability and management functionality by taking advantage of the pervasive Web style of computing to provide access to Insight Manager Device and Configuration information from everywhere there is network access.

Compaq Insight Manager console and the Compaq Server Management Agents are distributed as part of the Compaq Server Setup and Management package included with every Compaq server.

Key Features

  • Comprehensive fault management
  • Broad configuration management
  • Performance management/resource utilization
  • Remote management For more information on Insight Manager, see: http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/management/

    Speaker Bio

    Matt Hillard is an Advisory Field Systems Engineer for Compaq and is part of the North American Sales organization. He has extensive experience in all facets of Intel computing, with a focus on the area of Networking with Microsoft Windows-NT and/or Novell NetWare. Currently Matt specializes on Compaq's ProLiant product line where he assists customers in specifying, configuring and integrating ProLiant servers and their associated tools and technologies. Prior to Compaq Matt has 12 years of experience in the Intel computing industry, 8 years as a Network Systems Engineer for a large Compaq Channel Partner and 4 years in corporate Intel platform support.

    28 September 1999, 1:00-4:00pm

    Location: Compaq's Greenbelt facility (directions available)

    Topics (abstracts below)

    • Trip Report: USENIX Windows NT - Lisa Conference
    • Compaq ProLiant 8-way Servers (demo included)
    • Alpha & Windows NT Support Clarification and Platform Transition Strategy

    Trip Report: USENIX Windows NT - Lisa Conference

    Art McClinton, Mitretek Systems

    Art will describe highlights of the recent USENIX Windows NT - LISA Conference. It was two days specializing in Windows 2000 (W2K) with Keynotes from a Microsoft W2K product manager and a VP from COMPAQ. The conference specialized in managing large NT Systems, with Boeing at 40,000 NT machines being the largest. Most speakers were early adopters of W2K and all had at least 1,000 machines.

    Compaq ProLiant 8-way Servers (demo included)

    Dave Hemphill, Manager, Systems Engineering, Compaq Mid-Atlantic Area

    Need more power, scalability, and availability? Come and hear first-hand about Compaq's new Thunder and Lightning products, the first members of the Compaq ProLiant 8-way server family. These two servers, which scale from one to eight Intel Pentium III Xeon processors, have up to 16 GB of synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM), and provide breakthrough high performance. They also have the latest high-availability features to keep them up and running in the most demanding 7x24 environments: push-button PCI Hot Plug, hot-plug redundant fans, redundant hot-plug power supplies, Compaq Remote-flash Redundant ROM, and redundant processor power modules. This lively presentation fills you in on the complete feature sets, options, OS support, performance, scalability, serviceability, and troubleshooting.

    An 8-way server will be on hand for demonstrations.

    The following URL will provide additional information on these exciting new ProLiant servers.

    http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/technology/8way/

    Alpha & Windows NT Support Clarification and Platform Transition Strategy

    Ed "Don't shoot the messenger" Herold, Compaq

    Recently Compaq has made a decision to halt support of 32-bit Windows NT on AlphaServer systems and workstations and does not plan to support 32-bit Windows 2000 or 64-bit Windows 2000 Data Center Server on the Alpha platform in the future. Ed Herold, Senior AlphaServer Field System Engineer, will review this decision and explain options Compaq is offering to its Alpha NT customers.

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    27 July 1999, 1:00-4:00

    Location: Compaq's Greenbelt facility (directions available)

    DNS, WINS, DHCP, and NAT

    Jim Becker, System Solutions Incorporated

    Have you wondered how these protocols work? Do you have coworkers, staff, or customers who seem to know more about these things than you do? Have you wondered how they work on OpenVMS, Windows NT, and/or Unix? These subject areas will be covered:

    • DNS (Domain Name Service). DNS is the highly distributed mechanism for translating names like www.decus.org to IP addresses like 192.67.173.83.
    • WINS (Windows Internet Name Service). WINS is the Windows NT facility that maps NetBIOS names to IP addresses. WINS is often used in conjunction with DNS.
    • DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol). DHCP is the service that lets you configure TCP/IP for client systems (IP address, subnet mask, etc.).
    • NAT (Network Address Translation). Often used on firewalls, NAT lets you hide your internal IP addresses from the Internet. In turn, this lets you use a large internal address space even if you don't have very many registered IP addresses.
    Each part of the talk will describe the protocol's operation, its tools on various platforms, implications in a routed environment, and security implications.

    25 May 1999, 1:00-4:00

    Location: Compaq's Greenbelt offices (directions available)

    Topics:

    • Overview & demo of VS10 (new VMS workstation based on EV6 chip). MaryJo Connors, VS10 Marketing Manager, Compaq.
    • AlphaServer Family Update. Ed Herold, Compaq.
    • Benchmarking Tips - from the Compaq Benchmarking Center. Fred Deady, Compaq (presentation available).
    • Linux on Alpha. Fred Deady, Compaq (presentation available).

    30 March 1999, The LUG Boat

    Location: on (not in) the Potomac River

    Take a look at our pictures. Topics:

    • Mike Reeher: The LUG Boat Theme Song
    • Terry Shannon, Shannon Knows Compaq: Compaq Strategic Directions (presentation available)
    • Paul Lambert, DECUS/Compaq: Preview of DECUS '99/Providence symposium
    • John Loether, Compaq: Preview of Upcoming Technology

    26 January 1999, 1:00-4:00

    Location: Compaq's Greenbelt offices (    directions available)

    Topics:

    • Y2K story swap and predictions (Chicken Little vs. Pollyanna)
      Y2K is a year away! Meeting attendees will swap stories and predictions on what will happen (or not happen) relating to the "Y2K Bug."
    • Enterprise Backup for OpenVMS, Bryan Cox, Product and Marketing Manager for the OpenVMS storage management software products (presentation available). This presentation describes the OpenVMS Backup utility, SLS, and ABS. The speaker will also describe the future of each of these products as well as Snapshot Services for OpenVMS.
    • Backup & Restore Strategies in a Multivendor Environment, Don Campbell, Legato Systems, Inc. Enterprise environments are increasingly multivendor, multiOS and multiprotocol. Automated tools take on added importance when trying to develop a cohesive storage management strategy for these environments. The goal of this session is to provide the participant with an understanding of backup solutions in a multivendor environment.
    • Storage & Cluster Software Extensions for Windows NT (SCE): Product Overview, Randy Stapleton, Compaq. Storage & Cluster Software Extensions for Windows NT (SCE) provides, in a single product, industry-leading, continuous-computing features for Windows NT computing environments. It was designed to complement the standard capabilities of Windows NT and to utilize industry-standard server and storage components. System administrators will value its ability to centralize and cost-effectively manage disk storage and its enhancements to Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS), while application designers will value its core technologies for developing cluster-wide applications.

      The speaker will address the following core capabilities of SCE: virtual disk manager, snapshot services, and network disk services.

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